Elias Brown
Conductor
Elias Brown is a conductor, composer, and improviser. He feels at home with a wide range of repertoire, disciplines, and cultural contexts. He won the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award 2026.
His recent debuts include the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He has also collaborated with Ensemble Modern at the Acht Brücken Festival, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Ensemble Zafraan, and the Spectra Ensemble.
As a former Salonen Fellow, Brown was coached by Esa-Pekka Salonen and has worked as his assistant with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
He studied at Yale University, the Royal Academy of Music, where he wrote his master’s thesis about interdisciplinary concert programming, and the Universität der Künste Berlin.
